The People Agenda

What were the key lessons learned for HR in 2020? What were the key HR tech platforms that HR shared services teams were looking at in 2020 and has that changed in 2021? Has the debate about the value of HR in an organisation now truly subsided? What trends will we see in 2021 and is this the year of employee empowerment? Chris and Emma from LACE Partners talk to Lisa Dennis from SPX Flow in the l...

Aaron and Annette from the Guild of HR Professionals talk to Stephen Sidebottom about the latest Guild Cohort for their leadership programme, including some of the benefits of the scheme, as well as mentoring and networking opportunities that exist for HR professionals on it.

How do HR Shared Services Teams evolve? What are the characteristics of successful HR Shared Services Consultants? What can HR Shared Services Teams learn from other front-line functions like Customer Services? In this latest podcast Chris and Emma from LACE Partners talk about the latest whitepaper released in November this year and how HR Shared Services can become people and solutions experts.

How did HR react during the crisis of 2020? And what opportunities lie ahead? What are the big strategic questions that HR needs to ask in 2021? How do you improve performance and productivity through better people management? How do we structure our workforces for the future? Kevin Green joins Aaron Alburey and Annette Andrews in the latest Guild of HR Professionals podcast.

How can leaders get the most from their people? What enables us to work better and how important are the connections that leaders make? Is it ok to show vulnerability as a leader? These were just a few questions discussed in the latest 'In The Spotlight' podcast from the Guild of HR Professionals. Nicola Forbes-Taylor joins Aaron Alburey and Annette Andrews in the latest podcast.

More and more senior HR professionals are looking at the bigger picture in their business and expanding their own influence beyond just the people function. As a result the ability to effectively communicate your message is essential. In this short podcast Chris from LACE Partners talks to Brendan from Mastertalk to get tips on honing HR's public speaking skills.

How does HR ensure it remains the conscience of the organisation? How can we ensure that we are focused on the 'moments that matter' for employees? And how do we take stock, realise the value that HR has added during this period, so that we can demonstrate the value as we look to exit the global pandemic? Chris talks to Karen Dempster, an communications expert, on how to articulate an effective ap...

Is there a movement for senior HR professionals to become more commercially focused? How many are working beyond the people agenda? Are there specific capabilities and skills that make up a successful HRD/CPO? What does the HR function have to do to ensure the people stepping up into these roles in future have this commercial mindset? Chris from LACE Partners talks to Katie Jacobs from the CIPD af...

Bringing in diverse talent is only one side of the coin and in the latest ‘In the Spotlight’ series from the Guild of HR Professionals looks at how diversity and inclusion should feed through the entire life cycle of an employees time at a business, from initial recruitment through to onboarding and ongoing talent retention strategies.

Annette Andrews and Andrew Pullman from the Guild of HR Professionals talk about the impact of wellbeing and the impact and importance of mental health, as well as the role that mental health first aiders can be to a business and people. This is particularly relevant post Covid-19.

How can businesses effectively personalise the learning experience better and particularly, how do businesses get better at driving the diversity and inclusion agenda through online systems? Chris and Max from LACE Partners spoke to Mehdi Tounsi from Open Sesame, the online learning and development platform.

How have businesses and HR teams leveraged data and analytics since lockdown? Have they been efficient? Is there a danger for some businesses to over-elaborate in the way they interrogate data for areas like performance management? How do you collate data effectively from multiple sources so that you aren’t just wading through numbers-treacle? These are just a few questions that Simon Haines from...

Are you creating barriers for talent to come into your organisation as a result of your approach to diversity? Aaron Alburey from LACE Partners and Annette Andrews from the Guild of HR Professionals talk to Kate Headley from The Clear Company about the societal and economic changes that have occurred over 2020 and how HR needs to drive the inclusivity agenda at senior Exec level.

What does the change from the Job Retention Scheme (furlough) to the Job Support Scheme mean for HR teams and businesses? How will it impact contractual arrangements between employer and employee? Can employees on the scheme still undertake training? What are the challenges that companies entering onto this new scheme will face? Chris from LACE Partners spoke to Paul Chamberlain from JMW Solicitor...

Carissa Kilgour from Co. Lab returns to talk about what has changed in the way in which businesses are utilising their workspaces. How can a business collaborate better when everyone is at home? Will we start to see a move away from mass migration into the big cities? How can you maintain your workplace culture when nobody is in your office? How do you build relationships with those people in your...

How can HR teams and businesses get better at bringing data to the forefront of measuring a culture in a business? How can you use culture as the ‘first line of defence’ in stamping out unproductive behaviours in a business? Hani Nabeel from iPsychTec talks to the HR Guild about his experiences, how he has worked with organisations to drive behaviour change, as well as how you can use predictive a...

Doing things right or doing the right thing? Aaron Alburey from LACE Partners and Co-host Annette Andrews from the HR Guild, talk to Stephanie Davies - From Laughology and Founder of the National Happiness Awards, about what we should be thinking about as we step into the new norm of the working world.

An introduction from Aaron Alburey and Annette Andrews talking about season two of the HR Guild podcast, in which they explain what to look forward to in this upcoming series. They talk about being a 'business professional' rather than just a 'HR professional' and how this series will focus on how to help people network, develop themselves and give back to the HR community.

On this Thursday's podcast Aaron and Chris are joined by technology adoption expert Andy Barlow, VP of Innovation at Applearn. We talk to Andy about their recently released Digital Adoption Pulse Report, where they asked 500 business leaders what their experiences, challenges and priorities were in terms of enterprise software. Listen to the podcast to deep dive into the results.

We sit down with employee experience expert Luka Winterborne and our Director, HR Transformation Emma Leonis to talk about how Covid-19 has pushed many organisations to drastically change and improve their digital employee experiences. We explore the new focus on employee safety and wellbeing, the importance of service delivery tech and how HR teams can adapt to a quickly changing working world.

Chris from LACE Partners talks to Raj Sundareson from WalkMe about the future of the digital adoption space. Raj talks about the way in which DAPs can improve effieicny and speed up peoples lives. He also explains how digital adoption solutions can turn HR into problem solvers.

Chris and Aaron discuss the importance of collaboration tools in keeping workforces connected with Nazir Ul-Ghani, Head of Workplace by Facebook. They discuss how people have quickly adapted to life during lockdown and how collaboration tools that enable online engagement with work colleagues have played such a big part, as well as what the future holds for the evolution of the space.

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What are the biggest challenges that the global coronavirus pandemic has delivered for HR and resourcing teams when it comes to talent management? How are priorities going to need to shift in terms of the skillsets needed by businesses? How much impact will a second wave of the pandemic have on businesses forecasting their talent attraction and retention strategies? Kevin Green discusses this and...

Kerry Nutley, Human Capital Management Strategy Director for Oracle, talks to Chris about how rapid change has meant increasing digitisation for HR teams. The impact of proper adoption of technology is essential and so Kerry and Chris discuss that, as well as changing people and culture, in addition to some innovative ways in which some businesses are leveraging technology to drive their people pe...